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20VC: Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI: Fool or Genius? | Alex Karp Sounds the Alarm: Enterprises Fear Frontier Models & Questionable ROI of AI | The Rise of Chinese Open Source: Deepseek Building Own Chips

Jul 9, 2026 · 01:23:32

✨ Washington places new regulations on frontier AI development and deployment.

01:23:32

20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV

Jul 6, 2026 · 01:09:24

✨ The application layer is the next frontier for AI innovation.

Mike Mignano

01:09:24

20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra

Jul 4, 2026 · 01:08:48

✨ Unlimited demand is predicted for frontier AI, despite open vs. closed model debates.

Clay Bavor

01:08:48

20VC: Dario and Anthropic Declare War on Open-Source | Coinbase Slash AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40BN Valuation and Impending IPO | Bending Spoons: Smartest IPO of 2026 and the Year for SaaS Roll-Ups

Jul 2, 2026 · 01:17:10

✨ Coinbase significantly cuts AI spending, signaling potential AI token bubble concerns.

01:17:10

20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar

Jun 29, 2026 · 01:00:44

✨ Bloom Energy's success is driven by AI data center demand, powering the AI revolution.

KR Sridhar

01:00:44

20VC: How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong | Why 1-1s are BS and What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Equity | Why Taste Beats AI But How AI Kills Org Charts with Paul Erlanger, CEO @ fomo

Jun 27, 2026 · 57:12

✨ FOMO raised $94M from prominent VCs like Benchmark and Index Ventures.

Paul Erlanger

57:12

20VC: Deepseek Raises $50BN | Wall St's $725BN AI Question | The Rise of Open Source & How it Threatens OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds it's Own Chip: Jalapeno | The Death of Moats & The New AI Software Winners

Jun 25, 2026 · 01:24:22

✨ DeepSeek raises $50 billion, intensifying competition in the AI landscape.

How it Threatens OpenAI

01:24:22

20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence

Jun 22, 2026 · 01:14:19

✨ Nikesh Arora discusses the trade-offs between breadth and depth in frontier models.

Nikesh Arora

01:14:19

20VC: Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud | Why Revenge and Patriotism are the Best Founder Traits | Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask | The Wild Story of Raising $1BN from Masa Son in an Hour Long Meeting with Ryan Peterson, Founder @ Flexport

Jun 20, 2026 · 01:18:42

✨ Ryan Petersen criticizes remote work as 'white collar fraud' and champions revenge/patriotism for founders.

Ryan Peterson

01:18:42

20VC: SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN | Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix and Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN and The Case for Sovereign Models | Fin Acquired by Salesforce for $3.6BN

Jun 18, 2026 · 01:25:04

✨ SpaceX's massive IPO, Elon Musk's wealth surge, and Anthropic's Claude banned by the US government.

01:25:04

20VC: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta | How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China | Power is the Bottleneck to AI | Why Dario Has Done a Disservice to AI with his Labour Replacement Messaging with Aravind Srinivas, Founder @ Perplexity

Jun 15, 2026 · 01:20:56

✨ Aravind Srinivas discusses Perplexity's growth, tripling revenue to $500M ARR, and its $20BN valuation.

Aravind Srinivas

01:20:56

20VC: Who Wins the Model War: OpenAI, Anthropic or Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning | Labour Displacement Fears are BS & Overblown | From Physicist to Sequoia Founder with Matan Grinberg, Founder @ Factory

Jun 13, 2026 · 01:21:24

✨ Matan Grinberg on AI enabling everyone to be a builder and breaking GDP growth ceilings.

Matan Grinberg

01:21:24

20VC: SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR | Lovable Hits $500M ARR | Founders Revolt Against VCs: The Fundraising Horror Stories Going Viral

Jun 11, 2026 · 01:13:26

✨ SpaceX's record IPO roadshow and OpenAI's public filing signal the AI IPO race.

01:13:26

20VC: Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | The Real Impact of Open Source on OpenAI & Anthropic | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute | Could Nebius Sell 10x More Compute If They Had It & more with Roman Chernin

Jun 8, 2026 · 01:06:40

✨ Roman Chernin argues AI infrastructure is not a bubble, with demand increasing due to lower costs.

Roman Chernin

01:06:40

20Product: Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO @ Legora

Jun 6, 2026 · 54:31

✨ Jacob Lauritzen explains why 'token maxing' is failing enterprise startups like Legora.

Jacob Lauritzen

54:31

20VC: Anthropic Files to Go Public | Token Budgeting Panic Hits Corporate America | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | Apollo Warns PE Software Returns Will be Disastrous | The 9-9-6 Work Ethic: Performative Theatre or Startup Reality?

Jun 4, 2026 · 01:34:04

✨ Private markets shift to heavy CapEx; Anthropic files to go public, potentially disrupting the ecosystem.

01:34:04

20VC: Mercor CEO on Why Application Layer Companies Have No Defensibility, The Model is the Product | Token Spend Will Exceed Headcount Spend in 5 Years | The True Cost of Hiring AI Researchers in the Valley Today with Brendan Foody

Jun 1, 2026 · 01:15:23

✨ Brendan Foody on why application layer companies lack defensibility; the model is the product.

Brendan Foody

01:15:23

20VC: Corgi Insurance: The Most Intense Workplace Culture in America: 7 Days Per Week, Founder Sleeps in Office, Corgi Cafe Open 24 Hours a Day, 60% of First 30 Employees Have Corgi Tattoos | The Journey from $0 to $2.6BN Valuation in Just 2 Years

May 30, 2026 · 53:18

✨ Nico Laqua details Corgi Insurance's intense culture: 7-day weeks, founder sleeping at office.

Nico Laqua

53:18

20VC: OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | NVIDIA's $81BN Revenue Quarter | Cloudflare and ClickUp Do Controversial Layoffs | Exa, OpenRouter and Polsia Raise Mega Rounds | Uber and Microsoft Declare AI ROI for Developers is Questionable

May 28, 2026 · 01:25:19

✨ Nvidia's $81BN revenue quarter, yet stock is flat; Uber and Microsoft question AI ROI.

01:25:19

20VC: Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs and Memory | We are Not in an Infra Bubble & Dario Got a Bad Deal with Elon for Compute | Should US Companies Sell to China & Why Most Layoffs are AI Washed with Andrew Feldman

May 26, 2026 · 01:01:38

✨ Andrew Feldman states Cerebras is not in an infra bubble; Sam Altman forecasts capex spend.

Andrew Feldman

01:01:38

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